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Weekly Report - 22 November 2005
MEXICO: It is now a tight three-sided contest
The candidates have not yet reached the official starting line for their campaigns, which comes in mid-January, and already the line-up looks very different to what anyone might have expected six months ago. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PRD) is no longer the clear leader; Roberto Madrazo (PRI) has not moved much from where he was; and the unexpected PAN candidate, Felipe Calderón, has risen to the point of turning the contest into a tight three-sided race.
- The US claims that its War on Drugs is beginning to show measurable success
- COLOMBIA: Uribe seeks accommodation on several fronts
- PERU: Ollanta Humala starts producing surprises
- BOLIVIA: Hydrocarbons law returns to the forefront
- Tracking Trends
- BRAZIL: Lula says he'll run - then quickly recants
- CHILE: Second poll shows Bachelet weakening
- Tracking Trends
- MEXICO: It is now a tight three-sided contest
- MEXICO: Madrazo moves to purge PRI of dissenters
- MEXICO-US: Bill proposes fence along the whole border
- Tracking Trends
- GUATEMALA: Anti-drugs chief lured to arrest in the US
- HAITI: Latortue sets date, CEP contradicts him
- HONDURAS: Lobo surges ahead in last stretch
- CUBA: Castro launches 'cultural revolution'
- Tracking Trends
- The latest data
- REGION: South America leads the world in deforestation
- Quotes of the week